changing GDM background image on F12
by Fred Smith
Hi!
I've looked thru the forums and done some googling but I don't see an
answer THAT WORKS for this question:
How to change the default GDM background/wallpaper to some other image?
I've tried all the things listed in the forums and none of them works,
including (but not limited to) copying the image I want into
/usr/share/backgrounds/images then running this command:
gconftool-2 --direct --config-source=xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --set --type string "/desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename" "/usr/share/backgrounds/images/Fistmaster.FullHD.0190.jpg"
having done that either log off or reboot and voila! no change at all! :(
Thanks in advance.
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14 years, 4 months
No Help Found
by Sawrub
Looking for help by clicking the 'Help' buton under Appearance
Preferences > Background shows up a blank help window, with a pop-up
saying : The Requested URI "ghelp:user-guide#goscustdesk-7" is invalid.
How can i get this to work? Please help me for finding HELP.
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Saurabh Sharma
Linux user number: 490644
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Open your doors.......It's time to look beyond Windows
14 years, 4 months
Fedora 12 Installation Error: Installs i686 kernel on i386 arch and ...
by Andre Robatino
The Fedora 12 graphical installer requires at least 384M of RAM. If you
have less, it automatically does a minimal text-based install (a small
fixed set of packages without offering options for additional ones)
which is what you got. The confusion regarding the install discs saying
i386 is common. The i386 refers to the basearch (which includes
subarches i386, i486, i586, i686). F12 requires the i686 subarch. The
Live images are labeled i686, but the Install images are labeled i386,
even though the supported hardware is exactly the same. Many people
including myself have asked for the Install images to be labeled i686 as
well in order to avoid exactly this kind of user confusion. The
developers have a general rule, however, that images should be labeled
by basearch instead of subarch (not a requirement, obviously, since the
Live images don't follow it). I believe (someone correct me if I'm
wrong?) the purpose was to avoid the extra work of changing the image
name when the subarch changes. If that's true, it doesn't apply here,
since this particular subarch will never change again (there will never
be an i786) so i686 is now and always will be the only subarch that F12
and above ever support.
In any case, even if there's some benefit to using i386 in the name
during development, it would be trivial to change it to i686 at release
time.
14 years, 4 months
quite unusable wifi
by Pietro "m0nt0" Montorfano
Hi list,
i have an acer laptop running fedora 12 updated frequently and since
fedora 9 i can't really use my wifi as i want.
I have an atheros card:
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x
802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
running latest kernel:
Linux daneel 2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.i686 #1 SMP Mon Jan 18 20:22:46 UTC
2010 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
the wifi power on, connect to the AP and then get intermittent
connection flooding the dmesg with:
...
ath5k phy0: noise floor calibration timeout (2442MHz)
ath5k phy0: noise floor calibration timeout (2442MHz)
ath5k phy0: noise floor calibration timeout (2442MHz)
ath5k phy0: unsupported jumbo
ath5k phy0: noise floor calibration timeout (2442MHz)
ath5k phy0: noise floor calibration timeout (2442MHz)
ath5k phy0: noise floor calibration timeout (2442MHz)
ath5k phy0: noise floor calibration timeout (2442MHz)
ath5k phy0: noise floor calibration timeout (2442MHz)
...
and every line (approximately every minute or so) i loose my connection
for about 30sec to a minute.
Due to this the wifi card is unusable.
I found that this problem should be fixed at least in 2.6.27 kernel:
http://www.kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-ath5k-devel/2008/11/27/4246164
So if anyone can help me pointing to some links, recompiling the module
or loading it with some special parameter is very very very welcome!
Thanks a lot
Pietro
14 years, 4 months
64 bit fedora 64 bit firefox testing..
by bruce
hi guys...
got a test site that i'm creating.. uses http/tomcat to display an
open source app (novaforge).
i can test it running windows, and an older version of 32bit
fedora..i've also tested using a 64bit centos with 64 bit
firefox/java..
however, i had a friend with an older 64bit version of fedora, and a
64bit firefox/sun jre look at it.. and the site he got was basically a
horizontally compressed page.. it was like the right half of the page
wasn't displayed correctly..
since the site gives the warning for the self created certificate..
guy on IRC said that that might be the issue.. I'm not a TOMCAT guy..
but from doing some reading.. i'm not convinced.. particulary since
the other 32 bit systems are working ok...
so i'm wondering if i can talk to someone here.. who's running a 64
bit fedora.. and perhaps have you take a look at the site for me.. to
tell me what you see..
thanks!
-tom
14 years, 4 months
mailing problems....
by • » ѕαтнιѕн я « •
hi every one...
how to send mail to gmail without accessing gmail server...
like by using SMTP, pop and openssl...in linux system...
that is in my webpage forget password field is there ....by clicking that it
will send password via mail... the email address is in our database...
the normal php mail function is not working... i.e do i have to
configure..something...?
ie someone(a)somedomain.com <sathish(a)somedomain.com> to someuser(a)gmail.com
or using gmail account send mail to someone ie someone(a)somedomain.com
my laptop is my server
suggest some ideas.. and some useful links...
14 years, 4 months
Re: Firefox lockup after last update
by Vincent
> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:47:47 -0800 (PST)
> From: Patrick Bartek <bartek047(a)yahoo.com>
> --- On Sat, 2/20/10, Vincent Onelli <vonelli(a)optonline.net> wrote:
>
> > Today after last update Firefox lockup every time. I toke
> > the following
> > steps in try to fix what ever went wrong, I first execute
> > "yum reinstall
> > firefox" no change then "yum update firefox" again no
> > change so I
> > decided to uninstall Firefox and then reinstall it so now
> > it does not
> > load at all.
> > any suggestion?
>
> What does 'yum info Firefox' report?
>
[vinny@laptop ~]$ yum info Firefox
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
adobe-linux-i386 | 951 B
00:00
adobe-linux-i386
17/17
updates/metalink | 14 kB
00:00
Installed Packages
Name : firefox
Arch : i586
Version : 3.5.8
Release : 1.fc11
Size : 17 M
Repo : installed
>From repo : updates
Summary : Mozilla Firefox Web browser
URL : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/
License : MPLv1.1 or GPLv2+ or LGPLv2+
Description: Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for
: standards compliance, performance and portability.
[vinny@laptop ~]$
>
>
14 years, 4 months
F12: Yum/Software Update hangs
by Dan Thurman
Seems to me, that Yum/Software Update programs
hangs from time to time.
With Yum, a remote connection would sometimes hang
but then timeout and retry again. Seems this is not
happening.
For Software Update, sometimes hangs occuring during
downloads, and other times in cleanups. The spinner
stays on forever and forces one to terminate the program
via the kill command.
Dan
14 years, 4 months
yum/kernel download problem ?!?
by Bill Case
Hi;
I have had this problem since last Tues.
It is similar to some reported here but not exactly the same, it seems
to me. So if anyone has suggestions, please feel free to advise me.
]$ uname -r
2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.x86_64
]# yum upgrade
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Upgrade Process
...
Installing:
kernel x86_64 2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12 updates
20 M
kernel-devel x86_64 2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12 updates
6.0 M
Updating:
kernel-firmware noarch 2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12 updates
910 k
kernel-headers x86_64 2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12 updates
748 k
Removing:
kernel x86_64 2.6.31.6-166.fc12 installed
98 M
kernel-devel x86_64 2.6.31.9-174.fc12 installed
21 M
Removing for dependencies:
kmod-nvidia-2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64
x86_64 190.42-1.fc12.8 installed
11 M
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
kernel-uname-r = 2.6.30.9-96.fc11.x86_64 is needed by (installed)
kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.9-96.fc11.x86_64-190.42-1.fc11.1.x86_64
kernel-uname-r = 2.6.30.9-99.fc11.x86_64 is needed by (installed)
kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.9-99.fc11.x86_64-190.42-1.fc11.2.x86_64
kernel-uname-r = 2.6.30.9-102.fc11.x86_64 is needed by (installed)
kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.9-102.fc11.x86_64-190.42-1.fc11.3.x86_64
Complete!
(1, [u'Please report this error in http://yum.baseurl.org/report'])
I have filed a bug as:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566730
against yum. Yum is the component that seemed to deal with "ERROR with
rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:" However, I am not sure. It could be a
kmod-nvidia (rpmfusion) problem or a kernel problem.
What should I do? Just wait.
--
Regards Bill
Fedora 12, Gnome 2.28
Evo.2.28, Emacs 23.1.1
14 years, 4 months